# Creating a variable inside an object...How?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-variable-inside-an-object-how/259875>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 9, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-variable-inside-an-object-how/259875 "2008-05-09T16:22:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![blackcoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@blackcoma](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blackcoma)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-variable-inside-an-object-how/259875/1 "2008-05-09T16:22:23Z")

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Hi,  
In AS2, if I had an object named MC,  
I could have created a variable inside the object  
this way:

```php
MC.direction=1;

```

in AS3 it doesn’t work.

How can I create inner variables?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Felixz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Felixz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Felixz)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-variable-inside-an-object-how/259875/2 "2008-05-09T22:25:18Z")

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u can do this on MovieClip class which is dynamic, but you can’t declare such variable’s type